Pertransient

Quick meaning: Pertransient is an adjective meaning (rare) Passing through; transient.

Meaning

(rare) Passing through; transient.

Example Sentences

Interſecants, in Heraldry, are pertranſient Lines which croſs one another.

Thus is man fated to learn effectually from experience; the voice of the sage is, like all sublunary things, pertransient.

I will not stick summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them.

And to move is active as to feel is passive, wherefore by greater heat; whether the faculty [of sensation combines] with the essence, viz., of the pertransient spirit [translating spiritus pertranseuntis], [according to] Galen when [he says the faculty is in the brain] without the essence.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transient, transcurrent, through, intertranspicuous, transglossal, transfluent.

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